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THE CROSS
AND
THE STEEPLE.
The popular idea of Christianity is that it is
wholly distinct from the religious systems of
the pagan world, which preceded or were its
contemporaries. That its rites, dogmas, and
observances were instituted by its founders,
and without a special divine inspiration it could
not have sprung into existence. Yet the re-
searches of modern criticism incontrovert-
ibly prove that so far is this from the truth,
that it is the direct reverse. There is not a
fast or festival, procession or sacrament, social
custom or religious symbol, that did not come
bodily from the previous paganism. (Ancient
Symbol Worship, p. 96.)
THE CROSS AND THE STEEPLE.
Of all the great religions, Christianity is
most purely phallic, as is distinctly shown by
comparing its doctrines and symbols with more
ancient faiths. By phallic is meant the wor-
ship of the generative principle, which is proba-
bly the most ancient of all religions, and
which by its universal acceptance by primi-
tive man has given its precepts and symbols
to all others, even those of the most civilized
peoples.
Procreation, the most mysterious phenom-
enon of nature, early attracted attention, and
by analogy primitive man sought to solve the
problem of creation. As offspring came from
the union of male and female, so all things
sprang from the union of male and female gods,
types of the active and passive in nature.
Hence the reverence for these principles or
gods, and for the sexual parts (the Phallus,
male, and the Yoni, female) as their types.
These were carved or drawn true to nature
and became symbols of the male and female
principles, and their union the expression of
creative energy. The devout worshipper bowed
before their sculptured representations. The
uncultured instincts of primitive man saw
nothing impure in the act of generation, but
THE CROSS AND THE STEEPLE.
considered it as one of the divine processes
of creation, as sowing of the seed, and the com-
mand to increase and multiply became a sacred
ordinance, and the act itself a sacrament to the
Creator.
As Mrs. Child well remarks (Prog. R Ideas,
vol. i, p. 15): " Were they impure thus to regard
it ? Or, are we impure that we do not so regard
it ? . . . . Let us not smile at their
mode of tracing the Infinite and Incomprehen-
sible Cause through all the mysteries of nature,
lest by so doing we cast the shadow of our own
grossness on their patriarchal simplicity." The
ideas of indecency are the result of an advanced
civilization when the rites imposed by the
simplicity of the childhood of the race, became
perverted by licentiousness.
In the dim and undefined pre-historic age,
out of which the distinct forms of Phoenician,
Assyrian and Egyptian civilizations emerge,
phallic worship appears to have been universal.
Critcism confirms Bryant's statement that II or
El was at the head of the Babylonian Pantheon,
and that the Hebrew Elohim, Phoenician Illus,
Cronus and primitive Saturn were names of
the same god, represented by a pillar carved
in the form of a phallus. The name Baal
6 THE CROSS AND THE STEEPLE.
Shalisha (Kings iv, 42) gives an equivalent
idea, translated " my lord of Trinty," or, " the
triple male genitals" Set or Seth, equivalent
to Saturn, means "the erect," and Kivan said
by Amos to have been worshipped by the He-brews, signifies, 'god of the pillar," and Baal
Tamar means "god of the phallus." (Symbol
Worship, p. 60)
The supreme god of the Assyrians was Bel,
u the Proereator." The union with his wife,
the goddess Mylitta was the origin of all cre-
ated things Virgil expresses the Greek and Ro-
man idea when he makes the conjugal act be-
tween Jupiter and Juno the cause of the pro-
ductions of the earth. As at present in India,
the phallus, as an emblem of the Creator, is
found in all the temples, and is carried in reli-
gious processions, the Romans, when they held
the festival in honor of Venus, a procession of
women carried the phallus and presented it to
the goddess.
As the [male principle, under whatever spe-
cial or local name, was symbolized by an up-
right pillar, more or less carved to represent the
phallus, so the female principle was represented
by a conical one as symbolical of the " mother
goddess." This was said to express the form of
THE CROSS AND THE STEEPLE. 7
the swelling abdomen. At the temple of Am-nion, in Libya, this symbol was borne in a boat
or ark. At Delphi, the navel-stone of white
marble was kept in a sacred sanctuary (Strabo
ix, 420) The goddess Astarte was represented
at Carthage in like manner, as well as on Cy-
prian coins. The famous Caaba, of Mecca, is a
rounded stone having like significance.
As Christianity is founded on this ancient
faith, it is interesting to learn the ideas of these
primitive peoples. It was natural for them to
believe that the testes each had special func-
tions, one giving male the other female off-
spring, an idea science has lately unsuccessfully
endeavored to demonstrate. According to the
analysis of Rawlinson, this "conception gave
origin to the Trinity." The Assyrian triad of
Ashur, Anu, Hea, (the membrane virile with its
twin testes) were united with the goddess Bellis
forming the perfect creator. Ashur means the
" upright," while the left testes was Anu, andthe right, Hea,—the three forming the sacred
Trinity, the three in olie, the great "I Am."The pictured or sculptured representation of
this organ, the phallus, was received as the em-
blem of life, of the creative energy, ages before
the Christian era. The devout follower of Isis
8 THE CROSS AND THE STEEPLE.
suspended the phallus from her necklace, as the
Christian suspends the cross to-day. When the
pyramids were fresh from the hands of their
architects and the temples of the Nile were in
their pristine glory, around the heads of the
*'Queen of Heaven," and the "Virgin Mother"
and the infant Horsu the aureole was painted
expressive of their creative functions.
The phallus, by the necessities of rapid de-
lineation, or perhaps of taste, which dictated
the symbol instead of the exact representation,
became contracted to a simple perpendicular
mark, with a horizontal one across its top, and
in later times was used as the letter Tau of the
Phoenitic alphabet. This sign (X) was received
as a symbol of the male Creator at least 3,000
years ago, and in India is still retained.
The female principle, represented at first true
to nature, became symbolized by a cypher,
which united with sun-worship gave origin to
the aureole, and to express also the three-fold re-
ceptivity of the male triad, was expressed by a
triangle which in later ages became the letter
Delta.
Again, the cypher was placed above the cross
vT/symbolizing the perfect and complete god-
head, the " three in one," the union of the
THE CROSS AND THE STEEPLE. 9
male and the female, whereby all created
things were evolved. This is its most common
form, although it is met with, the parts drawn
true to the organs they symbolize. The sanc-
tuaries of Indian temples still furnish the cross
formed of intersecting phalli, to the horror of
Christian missionaries worshiping in blissful ig-
norance the same emblem of creative power.
It was the assembled Bishops at Nicea, in
the third century, who determined that the cross
should be the emblem of the Christian faith.
In their hands it was given new meaning.
While it taught that in sin all men die, on the
other hand it signified that all through Christ
received life.
Thus Christianity stole the cross, the central
symbol of its worship, from the pagan world
!
The devout maiden may blush to hear that the
diamond cross she wears on her breast is only a
disguised phallus, and indicates almost the same
ideas of the more truthful symbol worn by
Egyptian ladies four thousand years ago. If the
cross was thus boldly usurped, other objects of
worship were alike transferred. The " Virgin
Mother" is the goddess Isis, as her immaculate
infant is the child Horus. The very name Ma-
donna is an exact translation of the Sanskrit
10 THE CROSS AND THE STEEPLE.
Isi. The lotus has become the lily, the charm-ing sistrum has been replaced by the hideous
clanging bell, the high cap and hooked staff of
the Egyptian God has become the Bishop's
miter and crosier, the celibate monks and nuns(the latter a purely Egyptian word) dedicated
to the phallic worship, have been transferred to
the "virgin and Son," the erect oval, type of
the female principle, or the yoni, became the
aureole, or rather the aureole itself was trans-
ferred with head of Isis, mother of Horus, nowrenamed the mother of Christ. (See Gnostics
and their Remains, King; p. 71). Even the sa-
cred vessels of the pagan mysteries became those
of the holy communion. The emblem of the
fish held sacred by Buddhists, Egyptians, Bab-
ylonians, and Assyrians, and prescribed as diet
on certain days and ceremonies, because such
diet was supposed to be favorable to reproduction,
was not overlooked. And as the pagan ate fish
on Friday, a day consecrated to Venus, for rea-
sons quite apparent to one receiving the phallic
religion, Christianity accepted the day and the
diet. The legend of the Apostles being fisher-
men, and of the loaves aDd fishes, has an un-
doubted phallic significance.
When the village steeple, of a beautiful sum-
mer evening, is seen arising above the green
shade, indicative of the Christian worship, wepronounce it an inspiring object and would not
have it removed from the landscape. Yet our
thoughts revert to its origin, and if we ask his-
tory why churches have steeples and what they
THE CROSS AND THE STEEPLE. 11
signify, the answer returned is not conducive to
our reverence.
The column, the tower, the minaret, the obe-
lisk, all have one significance. The require-
ments of architecture covers the original mean-ing. The aspiring steeple is a type of the phal-
lus, and connected with the " House of God"has a purely phallic meaning—"the Creator,"
the "Great I Am." If the steeple is crownedwith a dome, it refers to the Yoni, the navel-
stone type of the Mother Goddes, of Ammon,of Delphi, of the shrines of Isis. When the
dome, as often happens, is surmounted by the
cross, there is completed the symbol of the phal-
lic religion.
The "Communion," under the shadow of the
phallic steeple, is a mutilated copy of the paganrites, wherein communion with the gods meantsexual intercourse with women maintained in
the temple for that object, as is proven by the
fact that any mutilation unfitted the individual
for the " Congregation of the Lord" (See Deut.
xxiii, 1), and that thirty-two thousand Mid-ianitish virgins were preserved for this pur-
pose. The Hebrew words for "sanctuary," "con-
secrated," and "Sodomite," are essentially the
same, indicating amatory passions. (See the
Masculine Cross. ) The communion wafer should
retain its original form of the phallus and yoni,
as it still does in some places in France on Easter
day. (See Remains of the worship of Priapus).
Christianity is a translation of paganism. It
added no new idea, belief, fast, or ceremony.
12 THE CROSS AND THE STEEPLE.
Was not Jesus crucified ? The tale is doubt-
ful. Christna, Prometheus, Buddha and other
Deities were incarnated ages before his time.
Singular to note, the cross is never depicted as
an instrument of torture, and the story of Christ-
na is identically that of Christ, except in
names and dates. Paul hesitated not to "lie
for the Lord's sake," and taught that cursed
doerine to his followers. Who can unravel
the mystery ? Is it worth unraveling ? Except
as a page in the history of belief it is worth-
less.
Christianity, founded on phallic conceptions, is,
true to its origin, a religion of feeling, of emo-
tion. Its basis is the passions. To them it makes
its strongest appeal and without them it is no-
thing. Its watch cry " God is love" has a per-
tinency. Is it strange, then, that in seasons of
" Revival," under the phallic cross and steeple,
that the emotions overmaster the intellect, and
that the orgies of Babylon are repeated ? Is it
to be thought strange that the priests to this
religion, although held in check as they are by
the civilization of our times, are, in proportion
to their number, the most licentious class ? or
that the strength of the churches is in the fe-
male members, held under the magnetic control
of " Ministers of the Cross ?"
It is not with a scoffing spirit I have studied
this interesting subject, which exhibits more,
perhaps, than any other the vital affiliations of
religious systems however diverse, and reveals
the foundation of them all. Because Christian-
THE CROSS AND THE STEEPLE. 13
ity is held to be the only true system, of divine
origin, and infallible, it becomes necessary to
show its human origin and relations to the so-
called pagan systems. Superstition lurks in this
stronghold, ready to clutch the throat of civiliza-
tion; and to dislodge this foe of mankind and
throw the light of truth through its dark dens
where dogmas are made plethoric by faith, is a
necessity of the time. The church, the steeple,
the cross, nourish the superstition on which they
are founded.
This superstition is early impressed on the
plastic minds of children, preparing them for
the reception of the seeds sown by wily priests
and laymen from the pulpit and in the Sun-
day school. It is the duty of Liberalists to free
their children from the bondage of creeds andfalse-beliefs, and how can they better accom-
plish this than by presenting them historic facts
on which popular religion rests ?
Do you fear anarchy ? There may be for a
time confusion of ideas. The Copernican system
of astronomy overthrew that of the entire an-
cient world, and broke in pieces the "crystal-
line spheres" of the great Ptolemy, yet astron-
omy did not die. Without the errors which pre-
ceded him, Copernicus would never have arrived
at the truth. They prepared the way.So of religious systems, the ideas and dog-
mas however false, have been stepping-stones
to new and broaderviews—approximating nearer
and nearer to the truth. The Triune God maybe proven only a myth arising out of a false
14 THE CROSS AND THE STEEPLE.
and childish physiological notion ; Hell maybe shown to have no existence ; the sufferings
of God on the Cross be discarded, and thebook in which the relations of God to man are
said to be contained be referred to human ori-
gin,—and when all is done the world be the bet-
ter.
The past needed sects and the battle of con-
flicting creeds ; the present has no use for them.They are dead bodies, once pregnant with vital
ity, now festering in decay. Something else is
required. It is positive knowledge, scientific
accuracy of thought and demonstration. Blindbelief finds its last hold with the ignorant.
There will be conflict and chauge assuredly.
Sixty thousand miuisters in the United States
will be relieved of the arduous task of " saving
souls" never lost, and allowed to follow moreprofitable pursuits. The $200,000,000, the yearly
cost of maintaining the churches in this coun-
try, can be turned to better use. The hosts whogo through a vale of tears in search of a "foun-
tain filled with blood," will be emancipated,
and dare to think, and even seek rational en-
joyment in this life.
The conflict of the ages has been the conflict
between the received religion and the tendency
of civilization. The Saviors of the world, one
and all, have suffered martyrdom at the bloody
hands of religion.
Is there any evidence that the present re-
ceived religion of Christianity is absolute truth,
and all the world will ever require? On. the
THE CROSS AND THE STEEPLE. 15
contrary, does it not exhibit marks of decay ?
Is it not, even now, a sapless trunk, on whose
leafless, moss-grown branches, theological owls
echo the mournful monody of salvation to mannever lost? Is it not even now directly in the
path of advancement and intellectual activity?
The great lights of the world are aloof from the
churches. Knowledge has been and is the bane
of religion. Religion has ostracized Gallileo,
Bruno, Darwin, Huxley, Tyndall, Mill, Paine,
Jefferson, Shakepeare, Dickens, leaders of a
countless host in the front of mental and moral
achievement.
Is it said that if the religion of the Past has
been largely composed of {Superstition, that of
the Present is free from this repulsive element ?
Ah, what assurance have we that a century hence
will not regard the creeds and formula? of the
churches, as we regard the childishness of the
Puritans, or the corruption of Eomanism ? Arewe not certain that beliefs now cherished as car-
dinal will then be considered of little worth, or
intrinsically harmful ?
We are fallible, and have not arrived at the
infallible, in the realm of the intellect or of the
morals.
If it be known that mankind move onwardwith the absolute certainty of planetary bodies
around their central orbs ; that there is no re-
trogression, and as yesterday's thoughts are re-
placed by to-day's, as to-day's will yield to to-
morrow's, it is our duty not to stand in the wayof this tidal flow in the sea of humanity.
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